An Exceptionally Important Collection of Rare and Valuable Japanese Color Prints
This is an auction catalogue issued in 1921 in New York by the American Art Association, presenting the collection of Carl Schraubstadter for prospective buyers and dealers. Its plates reproduce Japanese woodblock prints, mostly ukiyo-e figure studies of elegantly dressed women and theatrical figures, with numbered lots printed beneath each image. A designer could draw on their dense patterned kimono textiles, pale backgrounds, and vertical compositions for decorative borders and period pattern work.
